From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdqCL-0003Sp-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:29:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAKESAb9024547; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:28:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAKEMkGV020578 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:22:46 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1Edq5e-0007VU-BS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:22:46 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Edq5b-00086l-4U for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:22:43 +0000 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:22:40 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 *** Message-ID: <20051120142240.050a41e0@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <437F227F.2010008@fire-eyes.org> References: <1132339054.10259.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <437E32C0.9000500@fire-eyes.org> <1132345176.10259.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <437F1020.6000209@fire-eyes.org> <20051119121057.GA10100@valinor.dynalias.net> <437F227F.2010008@fire-eyes.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_v.lTWnSZ_W9=s3GdQ..2eXv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: decfa3c3-df31-4b30-9d5a-d092813ca521 X-Archives-Hash: dc53aa5b9f1c03f5f95400f60cbbd908 --Sig_v.lTWnSZ_W9=s3GdQ..2eXv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:02:55 -0500 fire-eyes wrote: | Okay. My difference is that I see this with apps that I didn't write, | which others don't have issues with. But I haven't seen it in a while, | seems to come and go. Doesn't make much sense, and I have checked my | hardware repeatedly. Well... Here's the thing... If you're using an app which triggers that message, then the app is broken. However, were detection not turned on, the app would instead behave randomly in such a way that it might carry on working. So whilst you could turn off the detection, it's probably not a good idea because you'd end up with random, hard to trace memory corruption... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_v.lTWnSZ_W9=s3GdQ..2eXv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDgIay96zL6DUtXhERAj9RAKCJY1PuIx7ebByxIAP/fg/WIRAbmgCfSWFA gL3u6QzrzInC5wlB7yOFTuo= =p2Kl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_v.lTWnSZ_W9=s3GdQ..2eXv-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list